Hanworth

Hanworth is a neighborhood in the Feltham district of West London, England. Its name means "small homestead" in Anglo-Saxon, and it was a sparsely populated manor and parish of a huscarl during the reign of King Edward the Confessor. After the Norman Conquest, the manor of Hanworth was ruled by a succession of Norman noblemen, and, in 1512, King Henry VIII inherited the Hanworth manor and gave it to Anne Boleyn for life. He later regained it following Boleyn's execution, and, on the King's death in 1547, his last wife Katherine Parr and her stepdaughter Princess Elizabeth came to live at the manor. In 1797, the manor was destroyed by fire, and the Hanworth House was rebuilt in 1802, only to become derelict in the middle of Hanworth Park. Hounslow later developed into a suburb of Greater London, and it came to have 23,563 residents in 2011.